Responses

Still another type of writing to learn that builds on assigned readings is the response paper. Unlike the summary, the response paper specifically asks students to react to assigned readings. Students might write responses that analyze specified features of a reading (the quality of data, the focus of research reported, the validity of research design, the effectiveness of logical argument). Or they might write counter-arguments.
 * Response Papers**

To extend these response papers (which can be any length the instructor sets), consider combining them into another assignment--a position paper or a research-based writing assignment.

Source: http://wac.colostate.edu/intro/pop5d.cfm


 * //Teacher Tips...//

A Few Possibilities:**

1. My students loved using this page to REACT--not only to the reading, but to the class and to their own learning. This is a great place for students to offer both creative and "traditional" responses to the reading, whether they're embedding music videos or hyperlinking to articles relevant to class topics. If those text-to-world and text-to-self connections have been resting apathetically in the background, the "Responses" page is a useful space for bringing them to the foreground.

2. My students enjoy the freedom of this page; while they still write to make meaning, they are not necessarily bound to traditional structures and can use less formal, journal-style writing combined with the various 3-dimensional media that a wikispace can work with, such as images, music, hyperlinks, and video.


 * Student Examples:**

Click here for a "Reponses" page in which students use history, images, and background information to react to discussion topics.

Click here for a "Responses" page in which students use personal poetry to explore sensitive literary topics.

Tasks: Add a new page to your wiki Add a hyperlink to an outside Web site Embed a video